8 A FEW NOTES ON MR. WATSON's ' COMPENDIUM.' 



curious to find it exactly in tlie same heterogeneous position, as it is about 

 Eno;lish towns, e. g. London, Brighton, etc. ; about Continental cities, e.g. 

 Paris, Florence, Rome ; there also it is a stranger still, but a stranger with 

 recognized rights, and a quarter of its own. 



Allium, ohraceum, L. (p. 332.) — Add province 9. In a field at Plum- 

 ley, by Peover Eye Brook. Several hundred plants annually. 



Blysmus rufus. Link. (p. 359.) — As Lancashire seems the most southern 

 record hitherto for this, it is worth adding Chester to bring the species to 

 a lower comital point south. It grows near the Shotwick rifle-butts, at a 

 spot called " Sealaiids," near Chester. 



Polygala eu-vnUjarls. (p. 488. "t — Add province 9 ; it grows by Peover 

 Eye Brook, Holford, Chester, — P. depressa, Wend, being much the com- 

 moner local form, found, among many other places, in Tabley Park and 

 Lower Peover Heath. 



Ulex eu-nani(s, Syme. (p. 497.) — I have gathered specimens near Lower 

 Peover Heath, Chester, which I cannot distinguish from the typical form 

 of Middlesex and Surrey heaths; but even at Lower Peover, as over 

 nearly all Chester, U. Gallii, Planch., is the common form. 



Anthjllis Billenii, Schultz. (p. 497.) — Province 2, Sussex. Brighton 

 racecourse. 



Coroniila varia, L. (p. 499.) — Province 1. I found it in a wood above 

 Dr. Freeman's house, at Soraerleaze, near Wells. There was not much of 

 it, and its presence there was no doubt accidental and casual. I put this 

 on record as this species seems to be now in this country beginning to 

 establish itself. 



Epilobium eu-tetragoninn^ E. B. (p. 512.) — The northern limit may be 

 extended to province 9, but I have only got one specimen from a lane in 

 Lower Peover. I gathered this as evidently not " obscurum ;" and sub- 

 mitted it to Dr. Boswell Syme, who named it " eu-letragonuni." But 

 'E. obsciirmn, Schreb., is the prevalent form in the district round Knuts- 

 ford, and I believe in Cheshire. 



Saxifraga umbrosa, L. (p. 517.) — It is perhaps worth. notice that, from 

 being evidently planted there a few years back, this has spread so much in 

 many places in the pleasure-ground at Tabley, Knutsford, Chester, that 

 any enthusiastic young botanist might hail it as a native there. 



Jster Novi-Belgii, L. (p. 583), has maintained itself for many years in 

 a plausible-looking corner of Tabley Lower Water; but has evidently 

 blown or floated across some two hundred yards of lake-water, where 

 there is, and has been from very old times, a herb-garden. 



Ambrosia maritima, L. (not entered.) — Alien, casual; a single plant, 

 in a clover-field in Plumley, near Northwich, Cheshire. I could, however, 

 find no other aliens in the field to indicate whence this curious stray had 

 reached us; but probably the clover-seed was Italian; the field was a 

 lonely one, and removed from any horticultural influence. 



Veronica ]H-regrina, L. (p. 540.) — Knutsford racecourse; evidently a 

 casual. Only a plant or two for a couple of years. Not far from it Lfpi- 

 diiim Braba, Medicago maculata, and C. Bo7U(s-He)iricus have maintained 

 themselves many years. Still there, 1870. 



Bartsia serotina, E. B. 3 (p. 540.) — The Bartsia round Knutsford 

 seems to me, who have studied both plants growing, sufliciently distinct 

 as a " form " from the Bartsia of the cornfields round Brighton. I used 

 to call the Cheshire plant "serotina,'" the Brighton one " ternu ;" but 



